| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L]Instrument Stability (Was what tuner do you use? And WHY???) | | Date: | Saturday, January 28, 2006 15:04:54 (+0000) | | From: | reso-man <reso-man @.......net>
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Not to be sarcastic Wayne, but dang, I can't imagine a banjo being as stable as
a reso! I stand by my wise@zz remark I made earlier, looking at the two
instruments construction wise it's like comparing a Peterbuilt to a golf cart,
with the banjo being the one with the li'l small wheels! Maybe it has to do with
the use a instrument recieves? Place a Banjo and a Reso side by side on stands
and pretty much play them in your studio, and never expose them to temp. changes,
like warm house to cold car, to a diffrent ambient temp in a jam session or a gig
venue, then back to cold car, and finally back to warm house, that might be a
factor, seriously, don't you think?
In any case, no matter what you learn, no matter how hard and dilligently you
practice, there's nothing that sounds as bad as an instrument that's out of tune!
(Keyboard players, especially electric keyboard players miss out ona lot of fun
in this regard) Tom Thieven (?sp) knows more about this than anyone I'd think?
To me, that'd take some of the challenge-terror aspect out of playing, lol.
Dan yes, I told "GW" one time he could hear a out of tune string ona Martin in
it's case, in a closet, in a closed up house..... 2 miles away! And that's
AGAINST the wind!! Our friend with the orange hat Dan mentioned has rather
sensitive hearing folks, and he's not at all shy about telling you what he thinks
of the sound of your instrument or how it's tuned, yikes! All part of "growing
up" in Bluegrass!
Never fear Dan, I'll never subject the world to me playing a Banjo! Boy, that'd
shut down a festival quicker than lightning striking all of the power
transformers at once, and
in a monsoon!
My main use of tuners, and the reason I have them on my "out of the house"
instruments, is obviously to tune up before going onstage, (when we do), but
mainly when wandering from jam session to jam session in the wee small hours of a
festival, (the instrument probably sporting a light coating of dew), I like to
check the tuner as a "reference" to make sure it really IS the banjo, (well the
picking circle, ok?), and not ME that's out of tune! Tuners with lights are
especially handy for this.
Oh, a "Richie trick" for you Intellitouch users who leave the tuners clipped to
the headstock, I used to have a small length of shock cord tied around the pivot
point on the tuner, that I'd clip to the strap in the area of the headstock so
when the Intellitouch got knocked off the headstock, it'd have a "second chance"
before it hit the deck and got stepped on, ground into the mud, etc. etc. Seemed
like "cheap insurance" to me? Ask me how I learned this???
Twangs,
Richie
> >
> >> I'm surprised you fellas have Banjos that stay in tune as
> >> well as Sq. Neck Resos.
> >
> >
> > This is new info to me. I have never heard a banjo which
> > stayed in tune better than a square neck reso. I have
> > traveled with mine many times thousands of miles, and found
> > it pretty close in tune when I took it from the case. Banjo
> > heads react so much to climate and barometric changes I have
> > never seen them do well with this. Even between sets of
> > placing them in a guitar stand they will go out of tune.
> >
> > Hmmmmmmmmmm.
> >
> > Unc
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